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Word: grower (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Michisada-san was waiting in the big hot communal bath, and we soaked together with a grower of mulberry leaves and watched through a somewhat steamy window the fertile plain. "Eat all your food this morning," Michisada-san said. "Especially the egg. It makes for sexual energy in the middle of man." He pointed to his middle parts and laughed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Up Among the Roadside Gods:Touring the earth on which paths cross | 8/1/1983 | See Source »

...onion caught on around the South, but did not move outside the region unless Southerners felt the pull of wanderlust, taking with them strong opinions on what constituted a good onion: the Vidalia. Now stores from Manhattan to Miami, Los Angeles to Seattle, sell Vidalias, real and counterfeit. The growers and the Chamber of Commerce here say the real Vidalia is raised within a 35-mile radius of Vidalia. Growers who belong to the Chamber's tag program produce onions that are graded and approved by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and bear a tag with the trademark Yumion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Georgia: Onion, Onion Is All the Word | 7/25/1983 | See Source »

...fury at being "warned off" the Clouseau case by the detective's enemies was enough to make this reviewer reconsider his career goals. But the people Jouvet interviews en route to researching Clouseau's life generally hold their own, and Clouseau's doddering father (Richard Mulligan), a veteran wine grower who's sampled a little too much of his produce, is hysterical...

Author: By Paul A. Engelmayer, | Title: Back on the Trail | 1/13/1983 | See Source »

...question is how much time. As Bob Kerr, a wheat grower in Altus, Okla., and lifelong Democrat, puts it, "I'll admit our problems didn't start with Reagan. But farmers just couldn't be worse off than they are now. If things don't change, the farm economy will certainly be an issue in two more years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Very Down on the Farm | 8/16/1982 | See Source »

...farmers, who have watched grain prices fall sharply because of the recession and an overabundance of commodities, are generally delighted by the influx of Japanese. Nebraska Wheat Grower Jake Sims figures that they have helped add three cents to four cents a bushel to the value of his crop, which currently is worth about $3.70 a bushel. Says he: "I don't care if it's Japanese, or Swedes, or whoever coming in. More competition means a better price, and we can use all the help we can get these days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Winning Trade | 3/29/1982 | See Source »

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